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Horace Mann Quotes:

Ocupation: American Politician

Life: May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859

Birthday: May 4

Death: August 2

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

- Horace Mann

source: "The Albany Law Journal", Vol. XLIX, (p. 47), January - June 1894.

topic: Apples, Law, Effort, Written On Paper

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